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Aimed at advanced undergraduates and graduate students, the book is an accessible and engaging textbook introducing the theory of statistical mechanics, as well as its fascinating real-world applications. The book's original approach, which covers interdisciplinary applications of statistical mechanics to a wide range of subjects, including chemistry, biology, linguistics, economics, sociology and more, is bound to appeal to a wide audience.While the first part of the book introduces the various methods of statistical physics, including complexity, emergence, universality, self-organized criticality, power laws and other timely topics, the final sections focus on specific relevance of these methods to the social, biological and physical sciences. The mathematical content is woven throughout the book in the form of equations, as well as further background and explanations being provided in footnotes and appendices.

Statistical mechanics. --- Statistical physics. --- Entropy. --- Ferromagnetism. --- Mécanique statistique --- Physique statistique --- Entropie --- Ferromagnétisme --- Mécanique statistique --- Ferromagnétisme

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Ferroic materials are important, not only because of the improved understanding of condensed matter, but also because of their present and potential device applications. This book presents a unified description of ferroic materials at an introductory level, with the unifying factor being the occurrence of nondisruptive phase transitions in crystals that alter point-group symmetry. The book also aims to further systemitize the subject of ferroic materials, employing some formal, carefully worded, definitions and classification schemes. The basic physical principles leading to the wide-ranging applications of ferroic materials are also explained, while placing extra emphasis on the utilitarian role of symmetry in materials science.

Ferroelectric crystals. --- Ferroelectricity. --- Ferromagnetism. --- Ferromagnetic materials. --- Crystallography. --- Cristaux ferroélectriques. --- Matériaux ferromagnétiques. --- Ferroélectricité. --- Ferromagnétisme. --- Cristallographie. --- Cristaux ferroélectriques. --- Matériaux ferromagnétiques. --- Ferroélectricité. --- Ferromagnétisme.